Writing a Book: Reading your book out loud

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Channel: The Creative Penn · 2010 · Education

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Before you give your book to an editor or first reader, it's a great idea to read it aloud. You will find issues with dialog, typos, grammar problems, punctuation as well as finding inconsistencies in the story. You will grasp the pacing and also understand how long it will take to podcast or turn into an audio book. 
This is about Pentecost, which I later re-published as Stone of Fire https://jfpenn.com/book/stone-of-fire/
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